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The manuscript on display is one of two ancient, pre-Christian era examples of the complete commandments.
FORBES: Ancient Ten Commandments Manuscript On Display
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About this time of year, the pre-Christian Vikings would be preparing for their annual winter solstice festival.
NPR: Whole Foods to Sell Exclusive Icelandic Delights
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Mr Faith said Tolkien's interest in pre-Christian mythology and legends played an important role in his books.
BBC: The Great Goblin by Paul Raymond Gregory
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Particularly noteworthy among the musical repertory of the islanders is an oral tradition of pre-Christian origin, known as runic or Kalevala-metre songs.
UNESCO: Intangible Cultural Heritage
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In this pre-Christian era, Druids acted as judges, doctors, diviners, mages, mystics, and clerical scholars, in other words, they were the intelligentsia of the time.
BBC: News | UK | The day of the Druids
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Most day-trippers head for the largest island of the group, Inis More, with its spectacular Dun Aengus fort, a pre-Christian monument built in the 2nd Century BC.
BBC: Ireland��s outlying islands
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The origins of the festival lie in the fertility rituals of pre-Christian Sweden, and there's a subtext to the pole that you don't need to be Sigmund Freud to grasp.
BBC: Here comes the sun in Sweden
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Meanwhile, the racy pre-Code humor evokes pre-Christian immorality, and a couple of production numbers by Busby Berkeley (including an offensive one featuring Cantor in blackface) luridly choreograph the elaborate social rituals built up around the biological drive to procreate.
NEWYORKER: Roman Scandals
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Two-thirds of Iraq's pre-war Christian population have fled.
ECONOMIST: Religious freedom